{"id":21,"date":"2018-04-18T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bender-lib.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/18\/democracy-on-film-the-american-woman\/"},"modified":"2018-04-18T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:35:00","slug":"democracy-on-film-the-american-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/18\/democracy-on-film-the-american-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy on Film: The American Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tModule 4 of Democracy on Film covers The American Woman, both through her eyes and through the eyes of others.<\/p>\n<h4><b>Module 4: The American Woman<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Introductory Lesson: Ways of Seeing Women<br \/><b>Chapter 1:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suspense. 1913. &#8212;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zfgiUvBaosg\">Check out YouTube<\/a>, as it&#8217;s out of print.<\/li>\n<li>Where Are My Children on Treasures III: social issues in American film, 1900-1934. Program 2, New women. 1916. d. Lois Weber. &#8212; DVD 5439<\/li>\n<li>Dance, Girl, Dance. 1940. &#8212; DVD 5487<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Chapter 2<\/b><br \/>Imitation of Life. 1934. &#8212; DVD 1061<\/p>\n<p><b>Chapter 3<\/b><br \/>Woman of the Year. 1942. &#8212; DVD 8511<\/p>\n<p><b>Chapter 4<\/b><br \/>Alien. 1979. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/proxyau.wrlc.org\/login?url=https:\/\/ffusa.infobase.com\/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=103247&amp;ff=1&amp;&amp;customID=3718\">Streaming video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Chapter 5<\/b><br \/>The Age of Innocence. 1993. &#8212; DVD 1371<\/p>\n<p>We also recommend <i>Waiting to Exhale<\/i> (DVD 2276), <i>His Girl Friday<\/i> (DVD 1341), <i>Thelma and Louise<\/i>&nbsp;(DVD 1169), <i>Tiny Furniture<\/i> (DVD 9713), and <i>Hidden Figures<\/i> (DVD 13951). I was curious, so I googled &#8220;Films with no women,&#8221; and&#8211;I admit this should have been obvious&#8211;they&#8217;re mostly big prison, ship, and army films. I wasn&#8217;t able to find any without men, though.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many interesting American female characters that it&#8217;s hard to isolate just a few. Let us know if you have a particularly interesting example!<\/p>\n<p>You can now find the full list of Democracy on Film in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/subjectguides.library.american.edu\/c.php?g=825736&amp;_ga=2.190840941.698675894.1523035130-2061035943.1521828778\">our LibGuide<\/a>. Check back for additional recommendations.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Module 4 of Democracy on Film covers The American Woman, both through her eyes and through the eyes of others. Module 4: The American Woman Introductory Lesson: Ways of Seeing WomenChapter 1: Suspense. 1913. &#8212;&nbsp;Check out YouTube, as it&#8217;s out of print. Where Are My Children on Treasures III: social issues in American film, 1900-1934. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democracy-on-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}